History

In early 1990s, thanks to his collaboration with a French

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 publishing house Les Humanoïdes Associés

Les Humanoïdes Associés

Les Humanoïdes Associés is a French publishing house specialising in comics and graphic novels. Founded in December 1974 by Mœbius, Jean-Pierre Dionnet, Philippe Druillet and Bernard Farkas in order to publish Métal Hurlant, it quickly expanded to include a variety of science fiction work...

,
artist Boris Dragojevic

Boris Dragojević

Boris Dragojević graduated at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade...

 launched into the world of comic book

Comic book

A comic book or comicbook is a magazine made up of comics, narrative artwork in the form of separate panels that represent individual scenes, often accompanied by dialog as well as including...

; the collaboration ended up after the outbreak of the war

War

War is a state of organized, armed, and often prolonged conflict carried on between states, nations, or other parties typified by extreme aggression, social disruption, and usually high mortality. War should be understood as an actual, intentional and widespread armed conflict between political...

 in 1991.
For the first time in Belgrade

Belgrade

Belgrade is the capital and largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers, where the Pannonian Plain meets the Balkans. According to official results of Census 2011, the city has a population of 1,639,121. It is one of the 15 largest cities in Europe...

, we saw extracts from the first unfinished series of an alternative comic book »Leutenant-sailor Dilber«.

That avantgarde comic book is imbued with humour and vision, conjuring up the legacy of pop-art and, in a rather satirical manner, predicting the future events in ex-Yugoslavia

Yugoslavia

Yugoslavia refers to three political entities that existed successively on the western part of the Balkans during most of the 20th century....

. Although it has never been published, this comic book remains a rare and most precious artistic achievement of the murky years of last decade.

Story

Let’s see the introduction and remember Babylon

Babylon

Babylon was an Akkadian city-state of ancient Mesopotamia, the remains of which are found in present-day Al Hillah, Babil Province, Iraq, about 85 kilometers south of Baghdad...

It’s 22nd century. The Earth was rapidly changing its shape; the snow was melting in the poles. After the modern Balkan wars

Balkan Wars

The Balkan Wars were two conflicts that took place in the Balkans in south-eastern Europe in 1912 and 1913.By the early 20th century, Montenegro, Bulgaria, Greece and Serbia, the countries of the Balkan League, had achieved their independence from the Ottoman Empire, but large parts of their ethnic...

 and battles for territories, a new human species was born. People got free from prejudices and morals. Their life motto was »All for one, everyone for himself«. There was plenty of water

Water

Water is a chemical substance with the chemical formula H2O. A water molecule contains one oxygen and two hydrogen atoms connected by covalent bonds. Water is a liquid at ambient conditions, but it often co-exists on Earth with its solid state, ice, and gaseous state . Water also exists in a...

, but it was polluted as everything else. With sulphur evaporating, the temperature of the soil was constant, between 30-42oC, a metar above the ground. There were occasional storms, but only one season – suspended autumn. The war-dogs survived the radiation

Radiation

In physics, radiation is a process in which energetic particles or energetic waves travel through a medium or space. There are two distinct types of radiation; ionizing and non-ionizing...

, but found themselves impotent to organize a new life.

North from Dubrovnik

Dubrovnik

Dubrovnik is a Croatian city on the Adriatic Sea coast, positioned at the terminal end of the Isthmus of Dubrovnik. It is one of the most prominent tourist destinations on the Adriatic, a seaport and the centre of Dubrovnik-Neretva county. Its total population is 42,641...

, the organized gangs »Croatia

Croatia

Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a unitary democratic parliamentary republic in Europe at the crossroads of the Mitteleuropa, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean. Its capital and largest city is Zagreb. The country is divided into 20 counties and the city of Zagreb. Croatia covers ...

 Records« were ravaging, and south from Bar, the pirates »Muslims« rytam selection was plundering all around. The quick patrole ships were the only that two sides in war had in common »The people will gild it all«, was the frequent saying of those who did not know what tomorrow would bring. That was the time of Leutenant-sailor Dilber, the last survivor from the helicopter »Nova Varos« .

text: Boris Dragojevic

Boris Dragojević

Boris Dragojević graduated at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade...

drawing: Adrenalin

colour: Boris Dragojevic

Boris Dragojević

Boris Dragojević graduated at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade...

External links

• Leutenant Dilber - Porucnik Dilber